Off to the Labour Party Conference at the Hotel Kilkenny tomorrow evening. We’ll be keeping the interweb alive with twittering, blogging, live video feeds, Jaikuing, youtubery, Flickr-age and even RTÉ Live coverage. As usual for Labour these days, it’s way ahead of what the other Irish political parties are doing. Not sure that it wins [...]
November 27th, 2008 at
21:53 in
Politics (Ireland) | tags:
barack obama,
conference 2008,
david traynor,
eamon gilmore,
jaiko,
labour party,
neil ward,
redmum,
shauneen armstron,
tom duke,
twitter,
ustream,
youtube |
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(part of the one at Labour.ie) <a href =”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1036793/” >Class sizes should be going down not up, do you agree?</a> <br/> <span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”> (<a href =”http://www.polldaddy.com”> polls</a>)</span>
So, Budget 2009 has come and gone (at least until next week, when Brian Lenihan starts reversing decisions, and March, when he needs a mini-Budget because all the income predictions are wildly optimistic). But where’s the plan? Why is there no articulation of how this Budget, and the two or three to follow, will bring [...]
October 19th, 2008 at
12:50 in
Politics (Ireland) | tags:
brian lenihan,
budget 2009,
counter-cyclical,
downturn,
economic growth,
economic slowdown,
finance,
labour party,
mini-budget,
ministers of state,
pro-cyclical,
public finances,
spending cuts,
super budget,
tax loopholes |
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Yes, I’ve been very quiet for the last week. Busy at work, Labour Party meetings most evenings and away on the Shannon for the weekend. I’m back now. I spent Saturday and Sunday on the Shannon moving my Dad’s boat, Vicki May, from Shannon Harbour (on the Grand Canal) through Shannonbridge back to base in [...]
October 15th, 2008 at
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Random Rocks | tags:
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heritage boats,
killeen's pub,
labour party,
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shannon,
shannon harbour,
shannonbridge,
vicki may,
wooden hull |
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The BBC are reporting (through their email alerts service) that Commissioner Peter Mandelson is being brought back from Europe to become a Minister in the UK reshuffle, due today. This will be his third time back in Government after being pushed out. Exact text from the BBC: European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson is to return [...]
Labour’s Cllr Dermot Lacey is co-presenting The Right Hook on Newstalk tomorrow afternoon. Should be interesting.
Following yesterday’s revelation by Ruairi Quinn TD that the Government has lost even more laptops this year, The Irish Times reports today that Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern is considering introducing a mandatory reporting system when data or data-storage devices go missing. That’s welcome, and long overdue. Bruce Schneier wrote about it back in 2006. [...]
October 2nd, 2008 at
09:41 in
Politics (Ireland),
Security | tags:
bruce schneier,
data protection,
dermot ahern,
labour,
labour party,
laptop,
laptops,
Politics (Ireland),
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Parliamentary Questions from Ruairi Quinn TD have shown that there’s been a significant increase this year in the number of laptops and other data devices stolen or missing from Government hands. Back in January, he put down a series of Dáil questions (PQs) which showed that more than 100 devices had gone missing between 2002 [...]
October 1st, 2008 at
17:08 in
Politics (Ireland),
Security | tags:
batt o'keefe,
data protection,
eamon ryan,
encryption,
government,
labour,
labour party,
laptops,
parliamentary questions,
Politics (Ireland),
ruairi quinn,
Security,
truecrypt |
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The Labour Party‘s 21st Century Commission (the 21CC as it’s known in party circles) should be reporting to the Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) soon. While there’s been plenty of speculation about what’s in it, none of it is particularly accurate according to those who’ve seen the current draft of the document (the Commission itself [...]
October 1st, 2008 at
15:02 in
Politics (Ireland) | tags:
21cc,
21st century commission,
eamon gilmore,
irish politics,
kilkenny,
labour party,
national executive committee,
nec,
organisation,
political organisation,
trade unions,
unions |
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This story, about a staffer on a US senate campaign who used a fake name to sign up to the opposition’s press releases, and was suspended without pay for her troubles, raises a few causes for thought. In Ireland, someone who did that would probably be promoted in most parties (FF & SF anyway) for [...]
